Escalera

Escalera (English: Stairway or Ladder) is the capital of the Punto Orgullo region of the northern Mexican province of Nuevo Leon.

History
Escalera was built by the Spanish on the side of a hill in the Punto Orgullo region of Nuevo Leon (later Nuevo Paraiso). The city was the largest in the province and was the provincial capital, run by the Governor's Residence at the top of the hill. In the 1900s it was governed by Colonel Agustin Allende, whose brutal military rule provoked a 1911 Mexican Revolution by Abraham Reyes. Reyes' followers captured the city late in 1911, killing Allende and storming the mansion. The city recovered as of 1914, and it was ruled by Reyes' government.